A team of researchers at the Center on Depression and Resilience at the University of Illinois at Chicago is working on technology that could monitor users’ mood and cognition—important indicators of mental-health stress—by tracking their typing patterns with an iPhone app called BiAffect. Initial research has found it is possible to predict episodes of mania and depression...

Regulators are investigating and issuing public advice about a rising number of food-related outbreaks, thanks in part to technological advancements like gene sequencing. That is raising pressure on U.S. food companies to ensure safety.

Lab-grown meat is raising new questions for religious leaders, including Rabbi Yuval Cherlow, who is considering whether meat grown from animal cells in a petri dish will fit into the kosher tradition.

Scientists around the world are editing the genes of livestock to create meatier pigs, cashmere goats with longer hair and cold-weather cows that can thrive in the tropics. But amid some successes, disturbing outcomes are surfacing.